New Music Spotlight: Chain Wallet ‘Muted Colours’

June 21, 2016

With its detuned jangle and dreamy atmosphere, the latest track from Chain Wallet sounds like a New Order cassette that’s been left in a hot glove compartment.

The trio’s vibe is bittersweet though, because underneath its warped production ‘Muted Colours’ overspills with glistening hooks – the kind that straddle the gaps between Wild Nothing, DIIV and Violens.

The Norwegian band’s rainy hometown is said to have informed their gloom-tinged lo-fi, but their music is far more inviting than Bergen’s persistent downpour. Beneath their veneer of off-kilter psych licks and mysticism, there’s an all-out pop tendency that begs to rattle around your cranium.